Over 75% of US students regularly choose not to buy the textbooks their professors require, a recent student survey conducted by the e-textbook publisher Bookboon.com has revealed.

Studying from e-Books still isn't the experience that many would like. Skipping across references takes time and is awkward, flipping across content, perusing and getting the feel for a book takes time. There is a strong future for the eBook, but the interface has a way to go yet in my opinion.

Most of us know better than to use technology for technology’s sake. The Shiny New Tech Syndrome is taking the world by storm, and with the added pressure of finding new ways to improve educational outcomes, we try our best not to be tempted.

More proof that good television doesn’t have to be developed by traditional industry players: Amazon has now received its first Golden Globe nominations for the Amazon Prime Instant Video original show Transparent, which follows the story of a...

The Wire The Aviation Industry Nearly Had Two Midair Plane Collisions in Two Days The Wire The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) revealed this week that on two separate occasions last month, passenger planes nearly collided in midair in...

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With airspace congestion emulating the roads and pollution, the goal saver is TCAS. Thank god for that technology, it has saved me and those behind me twice since it arrived.

Earlier today when Microsoft’s Surface event was wrapping, and Greg Chiemingo took to the stage to head off a stampede of writers trying to get their hands on the latest device, tweets were still kicking around wondering what had happened: Where...

The world's largest jet maker, Boeing (BA), may very soon see the end of the era of its iconic jumbo jet, the 747. Continuous weakness in demand in the cargo market and changes in requirements for large commercial jets are having a bearing on the Chicago-headquartered aerospace major's wide-body commercial jet offering.

The plane maker has seen no orders for its 747-8 jet so far this year. The 467-seater capacity plane is facing difficulty in getting orders. However, the 747-8F version managed to receive order for just one aircraft. Fears linger that if the market for such jets continues to remain as dull, the 747 series jet would fade away soon. Presently, Boeing's order books show a firm backlog of 51 747-8s. The 747 has received total orders for 120 since it was first unveiled, of which 69 have been delivered.

Boeing knew what it was doing when it invested in the Big Twin route over the three or four engined options. These configurations may have a future, but it will require a step-change in engine and airframe design to provide the resulting performance bonuses to fire the market and airline's imagination. The 747-8 didn't quite bridge this gap.

Each portion of your brain is responsible for storing a particular type of memory. In order to function correctly, your brain must have the ability to pull out considerably important info such as birth dates, faces etc.

Boeing and Airbus are both facing a challenge, how to ensure you product it operated as safely as possible in the face of highly variable pilot training standards worldwide. In todays highly automated environment, pilot currency where it relates to handling skills are highly topical... This is a creeping problem - a real challenge for the future.

“Today the European Parliament (EP) voted for a Regulation that is not to the benefit of the flying public in Europe,” says Nico Voorbach, ECA President, after the adoption of the new EU Flight Time rules by the EU Parliament this afternoon. “With this approval the EP took a step away from a ‘precautionary’ approach, ignored scientific expert advice and put passenger safety at risk.” Pilots and cabin crew from across Europe have repeatedly highlighted the safety loopholes of the regulation proposed by the EU Commission: excessively long night flights of up to 12hrs30 – while scientists have set the safe limit at 10 hours – and a combination of standby and flight duty, which could lead to pilots landing aircraft after having been awake for more than 22 hours.
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The West Australian European aviation firms Airbus, Dassault, Alenia poised to produce military drones Deutsche Welle European aviation and defense companies Airbus, Dassault Aviation and Alenia Aermacchi said Monday they had launched a new...

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The Rise of the Drone hasn't even started yet. But the sky is lightening on that sunrise.

The success of the Boeing (BA) 777 lead to demand for an even more sophisticated generation of the Boeing 777: The Boeing 777X. The 'X' was launched at the Dubai Air Show 2013, gathering record breaking orders and commitments

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It's great to watch the evolution of the 777 into what we always knew it would be. An amalgam of the 777-300 and the 787-9.

As the search for MH370 enters its third week, authorities get their most tantalizing clue yet with photos showing a possible debris field. Finding wreckage would allow them to begin piecing together, literally and figuratively, just what happened.

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We may never know what eventually happened on board the day this aircraft was illegally seized. Blaming the pilots may be an assumption too far, 'might it be possible that they died rather than hand their aircraft over to people unknown? I am sure almost no effort will be spared to get to the bottom of this, but it will almost certainly involve some very serious deep water recovery...

AZFamily Aviation schools prepare for boom in drone jobs AZFamily Aaron Gabrielson and Andrew Regenhard, aviation students at the University of North Dakota and self-proclaimed video-game junkies, could just as well be sitting on a couch playing...

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Well, it took a while to filter through but it is here. The USAF trains more UAS pilots than conventional ones at intervals. Question is, to what standard should these people be trained - how far do you go?

I wonder how the MS Surface will fare in the face of this, I refer of course to the use of the iPad on flight decks worldwide. Is it American Airlines who now use the Surface - it must be a lonely place to be... swimming against the tide. Increasingly iBooksAuthor is being used to generate training content, I wonder what MS use to create media rich learning environments?

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